Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism

[Tonus]

There are likely to have been many such small "miracles" during the war. The JWs have experiences that they documented that were similar or that could be used to imply that the hand of god was with them. I still recall a story of some German JWs who were running a small printing press to distribute the WT literature, and whose home was searched by Nazi soldiers. Incredibly, the story went, they searched everywhere but the room where the printing press was crudely covered by a sheet of cloth. Surely, god blinded those soldiers so that his word could continue to be spread throughout Germany!

So it was pretty awesome to be the JWs who didn't get beaten and dragged off to concentration camps, thus proving that they had the approval of god. It was less awesome to be among the thousands who did get arrested, beaten, sent to camps, tortured, and killed (thus, in the minds of the JWs, also proving that they had the approval of god). Maybe miracles just tend to be in short supply. So instead of using one big one to avoid a catastrophic global war in the first place, they were used sparingly and seemingly at random. That's the personification of love, I guess.